Tom Izzo wants Michigan State basketball to play grittier than it did in an exhibition loss at Connecticut with the season starting Monday vs Colgate.
Can moving DC Joe Rossi to sideline jolt Michigan State football out of its slide?
Searching to end a losing streak (and possibly save their jobs) Joe Rossi joins Jonathan Smith on Michigan State football's sideline. Will it work?
Michigan State football predictions vs Minnesota: Can Spartans get 1st Big Ten win?
Four Free Press sports writers chime in on whether Michigan State football can end its skid in the Big Ten.
Michigan football predictions vs Purdue: Do Boilermakers have ANY chance at an upset?
Michigan football predictions vs Purdue: Do the Boilermakers have any chance? Four Free Press sports writers chime in on the Week 10 game.
Michigan football vs Purdue prediction, scouting report in Big Ten Week 10
Free Press sports writer Tony Garcia looks ahead to Michigan football's final game before its second bye week as U-M welcomes Purdue to town.
Three weeks to the Ashes? Unleash the Bazball alpha-bears, Australia just loves them | Barney Ronay
England need to turn volume up and lean into tone of exceptionalism that continues to annoy their rivals
A few weeks ago there was a wave of newspaper interviews with the stepson of the king, Tom Parker-Bowles. These seemed at first glance to be about absolutely nothing at all, froth and chatter, a wincing man in a tweed hat talking about how he makes Sunday lunch. Why was this happening? Scanning the text for meaning, the clouds finally cleared. He was launching a cordial.
You might say, do we need … a cordial? What is a cordial? A way of ruining water. A drink that isn’t actually a drink. But this is to miss the point, and in way that is frankly embarrassing and I feel sorry for you. Because this is not any old cordial. It’s not the kind of really crappy cordial you might launch. As Parker-Bowles puts it, devastatingly: “Look, we have Belvoir and Bottlegreen. But they use concentrates. Why can’t we make a really high-end British cordial?”
Continue reading...Sources: SMU coach Rhett Lashlee finalizing contract extension that will give him a hefty raise
Another coach appears to be off the board for what could be a chaotic coaching carousel.
Kieffer Moore hat-trick brings Coventry’s unbeaten run to an end at Wrexham
Kieffer Moore downed Coventry with a perfect second-half hat-trick as Wrexham won 3-2 to inflict a first league defeat on the Championship leaders.
Coventry, the only unbeaten side in the EFL, were closing in on a club-record seventh straight league win when Ephron Mason-Clark superbly slotted the Sky Blues ahead midway through the first half. The omens were not good for Wrexham given Frank Lampard’s side had scored 34 goals in 12 games before arriving in north Wales and the home side had won only one of their previous seven.
Continue reading...Denver joining West Coast Conference, which is looking to expand to 12 schools
Christopher Callahan, the chair of the WCC’s presidents’ council, said that “we look forward to setting our sights on recruiting” a 12th school to the league.
Did LSU learn from sex abuse scandal? Apparently not, given interim AD choice | Opinion
LSU elevates Verge Ausberry, who was suspended for 30 days for ignoring abuse complaints and skirting mandatory reporting policies.
LSU interim AD Verge Ausberry says school’s athletic department ‘is not broken’
Ausberry is a former LSU football player who has worked in LSU athletics administration since 1991.
LSU fired its football coach and lost its athletic director in a week. What’s going on?
LSU fired football coach Brian Kelly earlier this week, and four days later, the man who did it, athletic director Scott Woodward, was gone, too.
Gonzaga coach Mark Few seeks to return the No. 21 Bulldogs to national title contention
Coach Mark Few wants to return No. 21 Gonzaga to the list of national title contenders, and he's assembled a loaded team to get there. Gonzaga went 26-9 last season, and finished 14-4 in the West Coast Conference, losing the regular-season title to archrival Saint Mary's. The Zags lost to top-seeded Houston in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the first time since 2012 they did not advance to the second weekend.
NFL legend Ray Lewis critiques Deion Sanders’ Colorado team, says there’s ‘no brotherhood’
Pro Football Hall of Famer Ray Lewis had some choice words for Deion Sanders' Colorado Buffaloes this week in a team meeting.
No mountain too high for Itoje and England with Australia first up in autumn series
England captain stresses team must display their full power in Saturday’s first of four home internationals in November
Just occasionally even the world’s best rugby players are genuinely taken aback. In mid-September, Maro Itoje, recuperating from his British & Irish Lions exertions, stood and watched an England training session and could not believe the pace, intensity and all-round zip on view. “I was thinking: ‘Wow, I need to get back in the gym, I need to make sure I come back quickly,’” he admitted this week.
Itoje says his former teammate Mako Vunipola was just as impressed – “He didn’t remember it being that fast” – on a visit to England’s base in Bagshot the other day. Another recent retiree, the England scrum-half Danny Care, felt similarly. All of which has been fuelling Itoje’s growing belief, with the 2027 Rugby World Cup on the horizon, that “there’s no mountain we can’t climb”.
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